THE GREAT DIVIDE (Valley Morning Star)
McALLEN ? In just 18 months, a significant portion of the Rio Grande Valley could be cut off from the river by the Department of Homeland Security?s border wall, designed to control illegal traffic from Mexico....more...McALLEN ? In just 18 months, a significant portion of the Rio Grande Valley will be cut off from the river by the ... (The Brownsville Herald)
McALLEN ? In just 18 months, a significant portion of the Rio Grande Valley will be cut off from the river by the Department of Homeland Security?s border wall, designed to control illegal traffic from Mexico....more... Holyfield getting closer to title shot (The Record)
The promotional moniker for Evander Holyfield versus Lou Savarese is "The Road to the Heavyweight Championship." It should probably be "The Road to a Heavyweight Championship," and that road should somehow lead to an eastern block country, not southwestern New Mexico....more... On the Rio Grande, Anger Swells Over Plans for Fence (Washington Post)
ROMA, Tex. -- Since 1767, some 150 acres of wooded riverfront along the Rio Grande has belonged to the family of Cecilia Ramirez Benavides, land granted to her ancestors by Spanish settlers who colonized Mexico, or New Spain, as it was then known. ...more... In Emergency, Evacuation Software Finds Best Way To Route Millions Of Vehicles (Medical News Today)
Yi-Chang Chiu wants to move people efficiently - lots of people, millions of people - in response to a terrorist attack or natural disaster. [click link for full article]...more... Richardson exporting his deep basketball knowledge (USA Today)
Nolan Richardson's friend hauls water bottles into the gym before Mexico's national basketball team begins practice. A day earlier the team didn't have water during workouts. "Mexico isn't familiar with what you've got to have, things like Gatorade, water," says Richardson, the ex-Arkansas coach who hopes to put Mexico into the 2008 Olympics....more... Evacuation Software Finds Best Way To Route Millions Of Vehicles (Science Daily)
How could you move people efficiently -- lots of people, millions of people -- in response to a terrorist attack or natural disaster? Suppose that a disaster occurred in Southern California and suddenly 700,000 vehicles headed for the Arizona border. How would transportation officials generate the best traffic management strategy to cope with the traffic? One very good option would be to use a ......more... |